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Feb. 10th, 2005
Well, we found the WMD
Feb. 10th, 2005 02:04 pmThey're in North Korea
North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the 2-year-old dispute. The Bush administration called on Pyongyang to give up its atomic aspirations so life can be better for its impoverished people.
North Korea's harshly worded pronouncement posed a grave challenge to President Bush, who started his second term with a vow to end North Korea's nuclear program through six-nation disarmament talks.
"We ... have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's ever-more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the (North)," the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. The agency's report used the word "nukes" in its English-language dispatch.
This is the same North Korea that Bush has dismissed for his entire term, the same state that he seems to think he can negotiate with.
North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the 2-year-old dispute. The Bush administration called on Pyongyang to give up its atomic aspirations so life can be better for its impoverished people.
North Korea's harshly worded pronouncement posed a grave challenge to President Bush, who started his second term with a vow to end North Korea's nuclear program through six-nation disarmament talks.
"We ... have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's ever-more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the (North)," the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. The agency's report used the word "nukes" in its English-language dispatch.
This is the same North Korea that Bush has dismissed for his entire term, the same state that he seems to think he can negotiate with.
No sense of history.
Feb. 10th, 2005 02:34 pmCNN's Wolf Blitzer, reporting on the upcoming marriage of Prince Charles and his horse Camila Parker-Bowles, stated the marriage was "unprecedented."
Hello? King Edward the VIII and Wallis Simpson? Abdication? Ring any bells?
Hello? King Edward the VIII and Wallis Simpson? Abdication? Ring any bells?
Writer's block, Day 2.
Feb. 10th, 2005 06:18 pmI have taken to pounding my head against the desk for amusement.
